INCOMPLETE Run log for 980113

Major Events:

• Norton, Meet Norton
• Cathryne Returns to her Reality
• I don't know. Tell me!

From the GM

• Celeste thinks she killed Merlin, and feels bad.

• Malachai, Serena, Tazik, Random, and company are stuck at some cliffs outside a major Pattern block a distance from Amber.

• Norton is significantly better, and there are two copies of him. All of his possessions were duplicated as well, including Dworkin's trumps.

• Cassandra and Janus cleaned Trialla of demons, then mounted on her back and rode to a destroyed forest where they were abandoned.

• Ilk prime was contacted by the Ilk at House Cara and told that Home was under attack. Ilk departed to defend Home, leaving a note behind in his place.

• Celeste is being towed out of the Courts by REN and Bella.

• Zack and Auricle entered the back of castle Amber and found many guards killed neatly and precisely, trays laid down next to them. There was no sign of struggle or surprise. Gillian and the remaining griffin were guarding the rear of the castle. Zack and Auricle reported to Prospero, who said an attack from the rear was driven off by livestock, then reinforcements from the castle showed up to take over.

  Benedict said an attack was impending at any moment from the courtyard, so there are troops arrayed around the castle courtyard. The rest of the troops are in Arden, fighting an invasion of blue watery things.

  Zack stabbed a blue thing once with his Morganti, and the knife turned blue. He hit it again and disappeared. Auricle caught the Morganti, got on the flying carpet, and went to the Pattern room. She met the guards outside, faked a note from Benedict, and went through to evil Oberon Amber. She hung out a bit, then returned.

  Zack ended up strapped to a table in a place with smoky water around. He was there along with most of the soldiers that had died or come into contact with the blue things. He was in better shape than most of the guards. Ask him about the dead parrot. He went into Faerie and back out again and was about to get back to Arden, might have made it to the castle.

• Cathryne advanced through a number of rifts, discovered a rift between our Amber and where she was after finding a place where Flora was queen and Random was ambassador because the Chaosians considered them non-threatening. She killed Fiona by feeding her ... [Both of the redheads, currently eating, start choking] some wrong information and is heading Amber-ways.

• Prospero gave Zack Benedict's attendance sheet:
  • Malachai, absent w/ permission
  • Celeste, absent w/o permission
  • Cassandra, absent w/o permission
  • Corwin, absent w/ permission
  • Caine, present and fighting bugs
  • Fiona, Bleys, and Llewella absent w/o permission
  • Julian, Gerard absent w/o, permission, presumed dead
  • Zack, Auricle, Random, absent with permission
  • Mirelle, presumed dead
  • Martin absent w/o permission
  • Rhiannon absent w/o permission
  • Connor, present, but irrelevant
  • Velaria, absent w/o permission
  • Dara, doesn't care
  • Merlin, absent w/o permission
  • Cathryne absent w/o permission
  • Flora, present

• Osric got to the Fringe, started a scan for the source of the demons overflowing the Courts, and got a sample of the deformed Mellor.

• Each Norton is wearing three Jewels of Judgment and is carrying a Greyswandir. The Corwins in his heads thought that they wouldn't be safe with the zombie Corwin.

• Corwin is a shambling corpse, but is regenerating and following the Nortons around.

• Damia and the fetus are ghosts, having been rescued by Damien

[Celeste killed her own grandson!]

From Norton's Player

Norton woke up from a state of unconsciousness in the center of the Spiral with vague recollections of a large explosion from the vicinity of Merlin and the thirty-five mages of Cobalt. I turned around and found myself facing an exact copy of myself, including a copy of the "happy helmet", all of my mind friends, and the trumps borrowed from an undisclosed source in Amber, but not Greyswandir and the Jewels of Judgment. We were doing mirror image movements of each other. It became apparent that the malevolent force formerly possessing my body was gone. It also became apparent that all of the mages, Carlton, Damia, and Corwin were dead. There was no trace of Merlin. Several Things were eating Carlton and were displeased when I tried to animate him so they attacked. After a brief thwapping from both of us they left us alone. There was not enough of Carlton to raise, but I was able to raise a zombie of Corwin, although not a very good one because its brain was fried. Damia's soul was gone so she could not be raised.

Myselves and Corwin discussed the risk of just walking across the Spiral, since it did not respond to any request for transport. After a pointless discussion we left without any ill effects. Found some servants, and after a bit of persuasion they decided to look for someone in authority. While waiting for their return we divided the six Jewels of Judgment between myselves.

The servant returned with Damia's ghost, her unborn child's ghost, and Damien. They had been in the woods where Bast was recovering from the explosion. After some discussion, Damia agreed to be raised as undead till another option was found. (After we repaired her body some by shape shifting new organs for her)

Malachai was trumped and he pulled us through to him and Darkstar. Darkstar and Damia determined that Merlin was interrupted by a forced trump contact.

Damia and Corwin both were showing signs of healing. I was going to leave them with Malachai and return to Chaos.